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Unknown influential women in history
Julia Child, Ayanna Pressley and Gwen Ifill among influential women from Massachusetts
When it comes to American history, Massachusetts certainly had an early foot in the door. The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620; America’s witchcraft trials started in Salem in 1692; the “shot heard round the world” was fired in Lexington in 1775; and it’s where, like a hot tea kettle (Boston Tea Party, 1773) tensions between the British and the American colonists boiled over into the American Revolution.
Looking at history through the lens of women who have made a mark, some big names quickly come to mind: Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Anne Sullivan and, more recently, Julia Child, Barbara Walters and Elizabeth Warren.
Even women like Hillary Clinton and Amelia Earhart have connections to Massachusetts.
This year marks a significant historical milestone – the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the legal right to vote.
In recognition of that, the USA